Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC22 Sociology of Religion

Program Coordinators: Titus HJELM, Finland), Nadia FADIL (KU Leuven, Belgium), Mar GRIERA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ (CONAHCYT/ El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Arabic Sociologies of Religion: Origins, Development, and Current Formations
Session Organizers: Florian ZEMMIN and Mohammad MAGOUT

Sociology of Resistance: Palestinian Society As a Case Study
Session Organizer: Dalal BAJES
Chair: Dalal BAJES

11:00-12:45

Critical Sociologie(s) of Religion
Session Organizer: Veronique ALTGLAS

Sociology of religion: miscellania
Session Organizers: Mar GRIERA and Olga OLIVAS

13:00-14:45

Health, Religion, and Spirituality. Interstices in a Complex Field of Knowledge. (Part I)
Session Organizers: Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ and Lorena NUNEZ CARRASCO

The Gender of Religious Authority: Contestation and Debates across the Mediterranean
Session Organizer: Nadia FADIL
Chair: Meriem EL HAITAMI

15:00-16:45

The Governance of Religious Minorities across the Mediterranean: Insights on Morocco and Europe
Session Organizers: Mar GRIERA and Nadia FADIL

Welfare State Developments between Old and New Social Cleavages - Global Perspectives
Session Organizers: Ingela NAUMANN, Catarina SEGATTO SEGATTO and Luis ARANGUIZ KAHN

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Impossible Grief: Bereavement and Death Practices Around Lives That Don’t Matter
Session Organizer: Nadia FADIL
Chair: Montassir SAKHI

New Methdological Approaches in the Study of Religion
Session Organizer: Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ

11:00-12:45

Cities As Migrating Religious Archives. Shifting Processes, Affiliations, and Urban Materiality from Moving Religious Practices and Habits.
Session Organizers: Letizia CARRERA and William CALVO-QUIROS

Nonreligions across the Globe
Session Organizer: Jacqui FROST
Chair: Valentina PEREIRA ARENA

13:00-14:45

Health, Religion, and Spirituality. Interstices in a Complex Field of Knowledge. (Part II)
Session Organizers: Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ and Lorena NUNEZ CARRASCO

Religion and Spirituality in Migration: Coping Strategies in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Olga ODGERS ORTIZ and Melissa ESPINO

15:00-16:45

New Frontiers in the Study of Digital Religion
Session Organizers: Avi ASTOR and Dr. Daisy BARMAN

RC22 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Impossible Grief: Bereavement and Death Practices Around Lives That Don’t Matter (Part II)
Session Organizer: Montassir SAKHI

Revisiting the Politics of African Migration in an (Un)Just Run-Away World
Session Organizers: Afe ADOGAME and Henrietta NYAMNJOH
Chair: Afe ADOGAME

11:00-12:45

Contesting Indigenous Epistemologies As New Ways of Knowing in Africa
Session Organizer: Afe ADOGAME
Chair: Afe ADOGAME

Science, Health, and Religion: Intersections in the Field of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
Session Organizers: Gabriela IRRAZABAL, Rosa MARTINEZ CUADROS and María Cecilia JOHNSON
Chair: Séverine MATHIEU

13:00-14:45

Exploring Intersections between Biographical Research and Religion
Session Organizers: Johannes BECKER, Marian BURCHARDT and Mar GRIERA

The New Trends of European Religiosity
Session Organizer: Dr. Marton CSANADY, PhD.
Chair: Roberta RICUCCI

15:00-16:45

Religion and the Culture Wars: Transnational Perspectives
Session Organizers: Rebecca CATTO and Joshua WARREN

19:00-20:30

Religion in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

New Books in Religion
Session Organizers: Ruth AMWE, Sumedha DUTTA and Jacqui FROST
Chair: Sumedha DUTTA

The Lived Religion Approach. Cases, Limits and Potencial (Part I)
Session Organizers: Nestor DA COSTA and Gustavo MORELLO

11:00-12:45

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part I)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA

Spirituality and Nature in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Anna HALAFOFF, Paul BRAMADAT and Sumedha DUTTA

13:00-14:45

Food, Religion and Social Changes: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
Session Organizers: Eloisa MARTIN, Alexandre GRANDJEAN and Laura CUCH GRASES

Religion and Politics in Democratic Societies
Session Organizer: Janine BENDOROVICZ TREVISAN

15:00-16:45

Faith-Based Organizations in Supporting Youth Civic Engagement in Uncertain Times Around the World
Session Organizers: Roberta RICUCCI and Juan Cruz ESQUIVEL
Chair: Roberta RICUCCI

New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Dissertations in Progress
Session Organizers: Ruth AMWE, Sumedha DUTTA and Jacqui FROST
Chair: Ruth AMWE

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Religious Revivals and Far-Right Resurgences: Unpacking the Intersection of Politics and Faith in Contemporary Times
Session Organizers: Ignacia PERUGORRÍA and Joseba GARCIA MARTIN
Chair: Joseba GARCIA MARTIN

Secularism, Religion, Problems of the Civil State, and Value Systems in Arab and Islamic Societies in Transitional Contexts: Major Trends - Actors, Challenges and Stakes
Session Organizer: Mabrouk BOUTAGOUGA
Chair: Rachid JARMOUNI

11:00-12:45

More Than a Matter of Belief: Including Questions of Justice in the Study of Leaving Religion
Session Organizers: Lena RICHTER, van Nieuwkerk KARIN and Abdelmjid KETTIOUI

Religion and the New Climatic Regime
Session Organizers: Vincenzo PACE and Orivaldo LOPES JR
Chair: Vincenzo PACE

13:00-14:45

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part II)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA

Religious Identity and Religiosity of Muslims in "Minority" Countries: Case Studies and Methodological Issues / Identité Religieuse Et Religiosité Des Musulmans Dans Les Pays Où Ils Sont " En Minorité " : Études De Cas Et Questions Méthodologiques
Session Organizers: Valentina SCHIAVINATO, Davide GIRARDI and Mohammed Khalid BRANDALISE RHAZZALI

15:00-16:45

Surveillance and Belonging
Session Organizers: Adam POSSAMAI, Farida FOZDAR and David TITTENSOR

Tradition/Reform As Ethnicity: Vernacularization of Secularism in Contemporary South Asia
Session Organizers: Dr. Visakh M S and Dr. Daisy BARMAN